Quotes About Beginning

A final image: Udayan standing beside her on the balcony in North Calcutta. Looking down at the street with her, getting to know her. Leaning forward, just inches between them, the future spread before them. The moment her life had begun a second time.

Did you have to try for a while?" He thought it a bold question, coming from a stranger. But he was honest with her, his thoughts still loose from the spiked lemonade. "Would you believe, with Maya it happened the first time," he said. He remembered how proud he'd felt, how powerful. The first time in his life he'd had sex without contraception a life had begun.

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.

Just think of yourself as starting from zero every time. That's what I do with every new role. I'm at zero, and I'm going to do the work.

The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

Time is the source of all things

Every work begins with a search

We were created from time

It'll never be too late to start to make use of the time you still have left

An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings.

And the book... and the work.. and the life goes to the whole beginning... and trying to answer how in real did we met.(Mr.Nobody, No One Tell)

What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.

I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.

'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

I always tell my students that, in fiction, the opening is a clue to the work's DNA: not only what it is, but what it will become, where it will lead you.

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

Over the years, I was lucky; right from the beginning, I studied with a lady who had a lot of... she was a classical singer, and of course, they're a little bit more into, you know, preserving the voice, making sure your instrument is ready to perform.

I started young. My first record came out when I was - what? 18? So I was in the studio when I was 15, 16.

I have nothing against these big CGI movies, but there are not enough of the other ones - the ones with stories about character that have a beginning, a middle and an end. I said that to a couple of studio heads and they said, 'That's novel.'

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.